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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






2. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






3. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






4. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






5. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






6. When does BMR increase?






7. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






8. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






9. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






10. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






11. What is RDA of protein?






12. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






13. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






14. What foods have high quality protein?






15. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






16. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






17. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






18. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






19. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






20. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






21. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






22. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






23. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






24. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






25. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






26. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






27. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






28. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






29. Fats can lead to some medical problems






30. How many calories/gram is protein?






31. What are healthy sources of fats?






32. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






33. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






34. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






35. What function is vitamin D?






36. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






37. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






38. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






39. Name six sources of grains






40. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






41. What is normal albumin levels?






42. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






43. What is normal BMI?






44. What function is vitamin A?






45. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






46. When does BMR decrease?






47. What is the function of vitamin E?






48. What is the function of vitamin C?






49. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






50. What does DASH stand for?